[ale] How do you store your passwords?

Nick Ali nali at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 9 13:52:00 EST 2007


On Nov 9, 2007 1:33 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Nick Ali wrote:
> >
> > There is no easy solution for not having GPG installed on the
> > computer. With different architectures and libraries, carrying around
> > binaries isn't a realistic option. But I can't remember the last time
> > I've seen a linux machine without GPG, but yeah, this could be a
> > problem.
>
> Put linux on the USB stick and make it bootable. Keep the passwords in a
> GPG-encrypted file or an encrypted partition.

This is interesting. How would this work though? If I need the
passwords to access something on machine Foo, I need to boot off the
usb stick, get the password, and then boot back into machine Foo?

nick

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